Hermes Agent Sidekick Pets Update: Setup, Commands, and 3,000+ Pixel Companions

Hermes Agent has introduced the Sidekick system, adding an animated pixel pet that reflects an agent’s status at a glance—idle, thinking, running tools, waiting, done, or failed—across the CLI, TUI, desktop app, and the Agent OS dashboard. The pet acts as a personality-driven status indicator to improve peripheral awareness versus spinners and log lines, helping users quickly notice completion or failures. Setup involves updating Hermes, browsing the Pet Dex gallery with `Hermes pets list`, installing a pet (e.g., `Hermes pets install Boba select`), adjusting size with `Hermes pet scale`, swapping anytime, or disabling instantly with `Hermes pets off`; users can choose from nearly 3,000 pets or submit their own, and the sprite cannot affect code or files. The episode also promotes the AI Profit Boardroom for the full Agent OS, additional agents (Oracle, Jarvis, outreach/lead gen), trainings, coaching calls, and support.

00:00 Meet the Sidekick Pet
00:45 How Pet Poses Work
01:41 Why It Matters
02:04 Where It Shows Up
02:45 Update and Install
03:29 Customize or Disable
04:01 Gimmick or Useful
05:12 Quick Recap
05:43 Get the Full Agent OS